Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.

Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

The decision to accept a contribution rests with Editor-in-chief and associate editors which reserves the right to make alterations in manuscripts submitted for publication if they do not conform to accepted scientific standard or if they are too repetitive.

The paper must have the following format with all Numerical Headings listed below coming sequentially on separate pages.

Title of the manuscript/paper (Title must be brief and comprehensively represent the findings and description as written in the abstracts.)

Names of all authors/ contributors (with their highest academic degrees, designation and affiliations)

Name of department and institution where the work has been done

The name, address, e-mail, and telephone number of the corresponding author.

Article file:

Title:

Title of the manuscript/paper must be brief and comprehensively represent the findings and description as written in the abstracts. The title should include the word “case report or case study”at last.

In abstract words should not more than 200. Provide the rationality of case report. Describe in brief chief complaints, investigations, and diagnosis of case. Treatment of interventions/ procedure adopted. Lastly write outcome or endpoint and main lesion from the study.

Key Words: 2-5 key words

Introduction:

Brief background of the disease and drug/interventions/procedure should be written. Methods for which adequate references from published work should cited in text.

Case History:

Describe patient’s demographic relevant details that are age, gender, occupation etc along with previous medical or surgical treatment taken. In clinical findings describe clinical complaints, local and systemic /physical examinations. Provide the details of laboratory, radiological and other investigations to diagnose the case.

Methodology/Treatment Given:

This includes the treatment given to the patient it may be drug (conservative), intervention (Panchakarma, Yoga, Hijama, Unani intervention, etc), Procedure (Agnikarma or any surgical procedure or yoga procedure), life style, diet, Yogasnan, etc. This methodology should be written in details in the form of duration, dose, frequency, etc. lastly outcome and follow up in terms of recurrence and adverse effect.

Result and Discussion:

The original and important findings should be stated in a logical sequence. Illustrate the results with minimum 2 figures or tables where necessary. As the figure/images is the integral part of evidence and it’s very important in case reports. Result must be precise and comprehensive and should not be vague.

It should contain the proper justification and reasoning of observations and results found in the case study/case report. Along with this mode of action of drug/intervention/ procedure should be discuss with previous published research data. Describe the strengths and limitations of this case report.

Conclusion:

Finally conclude the case with main findings and take away message.

Acknowledgement:

The author acknowledge to sources of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs as gift samples. Scientific personnel who have made substantial and essential contributions to the study should be acknowledged.

Images:

Authors must state clearly the sources of images produced in the article. Confidentially should be maintained during the photography and consent should be taken from patient.

If any ethical issue rise then journal can ask author about the production of the consent form and this responsibility goes to principal author or corresponding author.

Images should be good quality colour and minimum 2 and maximum 6 images are accepted in case report.

Special images as article is no limit of images, it can be published as per author’s explanation.

Images should be submitted as JPEG format.

Image size should be less than 2 MB.

Resolution of images should be keep up to 1600 x 1200 pixels or 5-6 inches.

The legends for the images should be included at last after references in the article file and should be cite chronologically in the text.

References:

Total reference should be 3-20 in number

Book Reference:

Name of author, Book name, Chapter name, Name of publisher and place, edition no. with year, page no.